Mariah P.
I’m sharing my experience with IFCA…
I’m sharing my experience with IFCA because I think anyone considering this program should understand what my experience looked like before making this level of financial commitment. I signed up for a business coaching program that was approximately a $12,000 commitment and was originally supposed to run through September. I participated for roughly two months before leaving the program and stopped using their services. I want to be transparent: I signed a contract, and I understand that contracts come with financial obligations. My frustration is with what happened on the fulfillment side of that agreement. If I had received the full term of coaching, support, and deliverables that I understood my $12,000 investment was supposed to include, this would be a very different review. I didn’t. During my short time in the program, my success manager left, there were changes within the company and its leadership/ownership, and I ultimately left months before my program was originally supposed to end. After leaving, I did not continue receiving the coaching, success management, or remaining deliverables that I understood were part of the full program term. Despite that, IFCA continued seeking the remaining contractual balance and has now sent approximately $4,000 to a third-party debt collection agency. That is the part of this experience I find most disappointing. From my perspective, I am being asked to pay the full financial commitment for a program when I did not receive the full duration of services and deliverables that commitment was intended to cover. The experience itself also felt much more impersonal than I expected from a high-ticket business mentorship program. When I began disengaging and ultimately left, I did not have someone from the business coaching or leadership side meaningfully reach out to understand what wasn’t working, discuss my business, or see whether there was a way to support me differently. The primary person communicating with me was a VA, who I want to be clear was very kind. My disappointment was never with her. I simply expected a much higher level of personal involvement and business mentorship from a program at this price point. I also think prospective clients should ask very specific questions about additional expenses. In my experience, software was offered as part of the ecosystem for running your coaching business, but there was an ongoing cost of around $100 afterward. Make sure you understand exactly what is included in your investment and what will become an additional recurring expense. I’ve worked with other coaching groups and business mentors, and based on my personal experience, I would not recommend IFCA to someone looking for highly personalized business mentorship. There are other programs and mentors I would explore and compare before committing this amount of money. I take responsibility for signing the agreement, and I wish I had scrutinized the contract and the program more carefully before making such a large investment. At the same time, I’m extremely disappointed by how the experience was handled and by the fact that the remaining balance is now being pursued through collections when, from my perspective, I did not receive the full program term and remaining services I originally signed up to receive. If you are considering IFCA, read the entire contract carefully. Ask exactly what happens if you leave early, what happens if your assigned success manager leaves or the company changes, whether you remain responsible for the entire balance if you stop receiving services, what additional software costs you’ll have, and exactly how much direct, personalized business mentorship you will receive. This is my personal experience. I’m sharing it because these are questions I wish I had asked before signing.



